Add a short introduction to the GitHub Projects map topic (#48789)

Co-authored-by: Ben Ahmady <[email protected]>

Author: guntrip

content/issues/planning-and-tracking-with-projects/index.md

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 {% data reusables.projects.projects-beta %}
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+A project is an adaptable collection of items that you can view as a table{% ifversion projects-v2-roadmaps %}, a kanban board, or a roadmap{% else %} or a kanban board{% endif %} and that stays up-to-date with {% data variables.product.company_short %} data. Your projects can track issues, pull requests, and ideas that you note down.
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+You can create and customize multiple views by filtering, sorting, and grouping issues and pull requests,{% ifversion projects-v2-insights %} visualize work with configurable charts,{% endif %} and add custom fields to track metadata specific to your team. Rather than enforcing a specific methodology, a project provides flexible features you can customize to your team’s needs and processes.